Lyrics to
Big D

This version of Big D was released by Waylon Jennings in 1971.

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Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I ain’t got a dime
Sleepin’ in the filty trainyard
At the warmest driest place that I can find.

What have I done that would justify
the way you treatin’ me Big D
Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I don’t know a soul.

I could feel a little warmer
But I find that there’s no coat in my wardrobe
My clothes’re paper thin still you
Let your chill of winter fall on me Big D.

Why I wanna go where the winds don’t blow till summer
Somewhere the sun will warm this chill in me
Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I don’t even know my name.

Oh, my temperature keeps risin’
And I feel that it’s done damage to my brain
Could this dirty trainyard be
The last and final restin’ place for me, Big D, Big D…

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About Lyrics and Big D by Waylon Jennings

When you decide to study the lyrics to Big D, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Waylon Jennings. Some of the lyrics to Big D have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Waylon Jennings and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Big D if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Big D" means the words set to the music of Big D, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Waylon Jennings. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Big D and the lyrics to Big D are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Waylon Jennings who came here looking just for the lyrics to Big D, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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